Our middle son needed a new scooter but had been hanging on to his mini-micro he outgrew 18 months ago because he loved it. We’d suggested a bunch of new ones but didn’t get any uptake. I found an old broken Mongoose sticking out of a ditch on an evening lockdown walk. The front wheel […]
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Carbon Neutral Flights, From Home
Christmas 2020, what to get the woman who has . . . . had a year of disappointment and cancelled plans? This was a hard year, lockdowns, home schooling, home working, self-isolation, fear, sickness, we all had a lot to deal with. Like a lot of people we had to cancel a foreign holiday which […]
Cloud Before Cloud
The First Cloud Rendered Production I started at HP Research Labs just after the turn of the new millennium. Since the first computers, enterprises have craved flexibility, scale and agility from their computing investments. This was true in 2000 and it is still true now; it is uncanny how those needs have remained constant over […]
Fear and Loathing in the Playground
A colleague at work told me a few days ago how his son’s primary school had banned trading cards. The students had been taking them in to swap but the school had decided there had been too many arguments and prohibition was the way to solve it. It reminded me of a similar time at […]
Cloud Migration Simulation
In 2012 it had been clear for a long time that the future for IT was the Cloud. Service providers had already started the race to build the next wave of infrastructure, platforms and services. Decision makers in large, more risk averse IT purchasing organisations had seen the early providers and adopters and began to […]
I blog, therefor I am
So I need a place to gather my thoughts. I had a realisation of just how much I have worked on over the past 16 years of my career, both professionally and for fun. Much of this was written down in various places already so this is an attempt to pull things together both for […]
Ham Wall Starling Explosion
We got up in the middle of the night and hiked half an hour in to a reed bed to see these guys this morning. It was worth the ‘boring’ 30 minute wait to see a 4 year old running around a hide screaming STARLINGS! STARLINGS! with delight as half a million birds exploded in […]
Tunetable – A Shared Music Discovery Appliance
This is old. I built this back in 2007 originally. Its an interactive music discovery appliance built to operate on a shared interactive surface, such as a table. I may still rebuild it as a mobile app now that tablets are large and ubiquitous enough that it could support something like this. Here is a demo […]
Mendip Re-birth
Here are some photos looking back at the place my son and I have often gone for hikes on Sunday evenings over the past year. Its had quite a dramatic change. The first picture here is taken last January, with added dinosaurs for Will. And here it is how we found it in May […]
ContainerOS Stacking Blocks
I’ve recently started managing a new R&D project at Hewlett Packard Enterprises called ContainerOS. We’re re-imagining a secure operating system optimised for container deployment. It’s a great project! As part of sharing that we are working on something fun and that things can be a little unstable at the beginning of any new project I […]